John Wise John is a consultant with the non-profits PRISME Forum and the Pistoia Alliance with responsibilities that include development and member relations. He specialises in the coordination of pre-competitive collaborations in life science R&D IT and healthcare. Previously, John has held Informatics leadership roles in a variety of organizations including the University of London, Sandoz, the Imperial Cancer Research Fund (now CRUK), Roche, Ipsen and Daiichi Sankyo. John has also worked in the technology supply side of the industry. In these roles, he has gained direct hands-on experience writing analytical software, teaching computation, delivering IT capabilities, and providing computer-based services to the discovery, non-clinical development, clinical development, and regulatory affairs domains of the life-science industry. John has had a long-time commitment to encouraging pharma to use expert, third-party, cost-effective, regulatory-compliant, secure, hosted information services. John graduated in physiology from the University of Oxford and received a post-graduate certificate in education from the University of London.